The Russellville Junior High East and Westside Lady Whirlwind volleyball teams each won their matches on Tuesday. The Eastside defeated the Atkins Junior Lady Red Devils, 25-16, 26-16 inside Whirlwind Gymnasium, while the Westside traveled to Beebe to defeat the Beebe Junior Lady Badgers 25-2, 25-12.

Eastside’s (11-0, 1-0 River Valley Conference) Hannah Rickman scored seven points and two aces during the bout, while Marissa Williams had four points, an ace and a kill. Sarah Shaffer had four points and three aces. Tyonna Bata scored three points and two aces and Gracie Davenport tacked on four additional points.

For the Westside Lady Whirlwinds (9-1, 2-0 River Valley Conference), Bheyleigh Nufer led the team with five kills, no errors and a .455 hitting percentage. Annabelle McNeill and Alex Adkins each had four kills.

“I was very impressed with our hitting,” Westside head coach Johnathan Neeley said. “We talked about minimizing errors and we were able to do that against Beebe. We had 21 kills and only four errors and that is pretty impressive for a ninth-grade match.”

Maebre Hale had three service aces on six attempts. Baylee Knight and Rachel Prochazka both passed for a perfect 3.0 in serve-receive.

The Eastside eighth-grade black team also won their matches, 25-23, 25-13, during which Samantha Ibenez scored four points, Hannah maund had 12 points and an ace, Carter Murphey had seven points and Lea Roach score four points and two aces.

East’s eighth-grade red team added the final win the sweep with a score of 25-13, 22-25 and 15-11. Hannah Jones scored three points and an ace during the match, while Meredith Duffield had 11 points, three aces and a kill. Mary Katelyn Byrd had nine points, three aces and two kills. Maddison Mallet scored two aces, two kills and a point. Astrid Christian scored two points, two aces and three kills.

The Westside eighth-grade team won 25-8, 25-22.

Eleanor Duffield had four kills on six attempts and ended with an impressive .667 hitting percentage while accumulating four aces. Anna Cate Wojo had four kills on only one error for a .600 hitting percentage. Wojo tied the team high four aces in her performance against the Junior Lady Badgers. Annalee Drain chipped in a kill, while Abigail Molitor had three aces and Elise Daiber had two.

The Eastside will travel to Beebe today to give the the Junior Lady Badgers round-two of Russellville volleyball. The game is scheduled to begin at 4 p.m..

Meanwhile, the West hosted Mayflower on Tuesday and well travel to Vilonia on Monday.